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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

OWASP Connector - November 4

2014 Global Board of Directors Election

The 2014 OWASP Global Board of Directors election has completed.Please help us in welcoming the newly appointed board members. Their term will take affect January 1, 2015.

Jim Manico

Andrew van der Stock

Matthew Konda

We would like to thank all of the candidates for their time and energy they invested into this campaign.

Jim Manico - 382 votes

Andrew van der Stock - 302 votes

Matthew Konda - 204 votes

Bil Corry - 165 votes

Mateo Martinez - 143 votes

Israel Bryski - 131 votes

Tahir Khan - 92 votes

Nigel Phair - 72 votes

Timur Khrotko - 69 votes

Abbas Naderi Afooshte - 57 votes

Voter Summary

Total - 738

Abstain - 73

738 of 1991 electors voted in this ballot

New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Computing SciencesTom Brennan, outgoing board member has been appointed to The Alumni and Industry Advisory Board CCS Capstone Program at New Jersey Institute of Technology. NJIT provides a unique environment of real-world leaning to university, high school, and middle school students. This environment does not only integrate real world practices and resources into academic curricula but also integrates academic education into real world to add substantial value to existing real world projects.

Thank you to our renewed Corporate Member:

Gotham Digital Science

2014 CISO Survey

TAKE THE SURVEY HEREOWASP is preparing the Global CISO report for 2014.We are conducting a survey among CISOs and senior information security managers with the aim of providing new insights about the state of application security across various industry sectors.This will help us align our efforts to better help solving the problems of that you face.Deadline for submission of the completed survey is November 10th 2014.TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

New OWASP Projects

OWASP KALP Mobile Project is for the users around the world who want to access the Top Ten vulnerabilities on the go (on their mobile), download the Top Ten and Email it. This is light weight information of OWASP Top Ten. Any new additions to cheat sheets and prevention cheat sheets will automatically accessible on the mobile app.

OWASP ASVS Assessment Tool (OWAAT) is a tool, used to verify Web applications security conformance to the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). OWAAT is a Web-based tool and provides team work capabilities. It allows to create multiple assessment projects and assign assessment tasks to different users.

OWASP ASVS Assessment Tool (OWAAT) is a tool, used to verify Web applications security conformance to the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). OWAAT is a Web-based tool and provides team work capabilities. It allows to create multiple assessment projects and assign assessment tasks to different users.